I got mad respect for Islam. They got a lot of shit right. They were still infiltrated by Paganism though, like their cousin Christianity and Judaism. I don’t think we should paint or depict Jesus, I don’t think Jews should wear the star of David, and I don’t think Muslims should make the black rock at the Kaaba part of pilgrimage ritual.

Trump said he was upset that President Barack Obama did not return his calls about a free ballroom he offered to build. He said that he offered between $50 million and $100 million to the White House to build it but he never heard back.
He also made a strange statement about how he wants the U.S. to go back to Iraq to take some oil.
“That’s the problem with our country,” Trump said.
He also said he was only for the Iraq War because he was under the impression that it was fought for oil. Now, he wants to go back to get oil.
“I say we should take it and pay ourselves back,” Trump said

He also said he was only for the Iraq War because he was under the impression that it was fought for oil. Now, he wants to go back to get oil.
“I say we should take it and pay ourselves back,” Trump said

So, the question for me in approaching Gatsby was how to elicit from our audience the same level of excitement and pop-cultural immediacy toward the world that Fitzgerald did for his audience? And in our age, the energy of jazz is caught in the energy of hip-hop. Not only is Jay-Z a great artist, full stop, but I had heard that he was a great collaborator. Leonardo and I were lucky enough to be present in a recording session over two years ago as Jay-Z was recording ‘No Church in the Wild,’ and the collaboration grew from there.”